<quoted text>Prove that visions of Jesus aren't false visions. "The Bible says so" isn't proof, it's your opinion.Show me the cold hard proof.And while you're at it, explain why only Christians see Jesus. If God is so great why doesn't he appear to non-Christians in NDEs?

Personally I have heard of people not being Christian who have seen Christ..

and it changed their lives...But personally I believe that faith comes by hearing..

and hearing the word about Christ..preaching of the gospels not what a person has envisioned.

<quoted text>Personally I have heard of people not being Christian who have seen Christ..and it changed their lives...But personally I believe that faith comes by hearing..and hearing the word about Christ..preaching of the gospels not what a person has envisioned.

I should have been more specific. I was referring to NDEs, not visions in the general sense. NDEs are culturally specific.

Hallucinations, whether deliberately drug-induced, the result of medication, or caused by oxygen deprivation, almost always take place while the subject is awake and conscious, whereas NDEs happen during unconsciousness, sometimes when the subject is so close to death that no record of brain activity is recorded on an electroencephalograph, the machine that monitors brain waves. Also, the medical conditions that take subjects to the brink of death, and to having a NDE, do not necessarily include oxygen-deprivation, or any medication. This is particularly true of accident victims. NDEs appear to occur at the moment when the threat of death occurs, not necessarily at the time, maybe hours later, when death is close enough to be starving the brain of oxygen.

<quoted text>Personally I have heard of people not being Christian who have seen Christ..and it changed their lives...But personally I believe that faith comes by hearing..and hearing the word about Christ..preaching of the gospels not what a person has envisioned.

Hallucinations, whether deliberately drug-induced, the result of medication, or caused by oxygen deprivation, almost always take place while the subject is awake and conscious, whereas NDEs happen during unconsciousness, sometimes when the subject is so close to death that no record of brain activity is recorded on an electroencephalograph, the machine that monitors brain waves.

Also, the medical conditions that take subjects to the brink of death, and to having a NDE, do not necessarily include oxygen-deprivation, or any medication. This is particularly true of accident victims.

<quoted text>Which then makes it very interesting...wouldn't you say?..and there is still a tremendous amount we don't know about how we are made.I have just recently been listening to a Christian perspective on UFO's ..and people who believe they were abducted..this is very similar in some sense..and it was agreed its satanic.

<quoted text>YOU CAN'T, I AM NOT FORCING YOU TO.But I ask you to consider the fact that lying to give false witness is a sin to me.<quoted text>Same as above. Only that I was a believer,(against the wishes of my family), but I never attended Church and one could accuse me of being a believer 'blindly'. I had no reason to be a believer.<quoted text>I had never had a hallucination before. And the claim that NDEs are merely hallucinations is one of the most attacked theories.(I'll dig up some links).<quoted text>Would my NDE be any more real to you and critics if I reported it?Would it then be considered proven?Would it give mine more credibility?

Some NDEs, not all, are hallucinations, some are lucid dreams. And in some cases, there have been NDEs that were implanted in patients' memories while they were under hypnosis. That's why there is so much confusion about them.

<quoted text>Which then makes it very interesting...wouldn't you say?..and there is still a tremendous amount we don't know about how we are made.I have just recently been listening to a Christian perspective on UFO's ..and people who believe they were abducted..this is very similar in some sense..and it was agreed its satanic.

Alien abductions are incredibly similar to accounts of succubi and inccubi from the late 14th/early 15th centuries.

Modern research has found that these experiences occur during hynogogic and /or hypnopompic sleep, which is when we are just falling asleep or just waking up. These are the stages in which sleep paralysis occurs.

And just like NDE experiences, alien abductions (just like visits from inccubi and succubi) are culturally conditioned.

I don't remember any tunnels or bright lights. All I rembemer now is watching myself on the hospital bed being tended to by a nurse.

I may have remembered more in the past but it is becomming so vague now.

The first thing I said to Dad when I awoke was "THEY TOOK ME AWAY ON A BIG WHITE THING."I know you are thinking that was the ambulence, but how could I remeber seeing it when I was unconscious and lying on my back?

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